“Finally, a bright star appeared unto them— the brilliant Astarte, reflecting the sun and illuminated by 50,000 degree plasma. She fell from the heavens into the sea with a cosmic roar. Naval hovercraft rapidly converged upon her and the blackened and pulverized titanium space can was hoisted onto the deck of a floating retrieval ship. It’s doors were frantically pried open with crowbars. Indigo was extracted first and did the best he could to help with a physiology that had forgotten how to overcome full gravity. The strain caused him to almost immediately lose consciousness. He was poured onto a gurney and hauled away. Staley made no effort to leave the Astarte’s womb at all. They pulled him out clumsily, breech style and face down. It was not immediately known if he had survived re-entry.
There were originally seven crewmembers aboard the Astarte.“
Gaiastan is an adventure set in a post Agenda 21 dystopia.
The world of ’Gaiastan’…
Liberty, property and the old religions have been eradicated, replaced with a new world order– a green, totalitarian, hive mind paradigm called ‘Gaianism’.. . one harmonious system of ethics, economics, religion and art.
This system holds that Man is a vulgar, selfish, exploitative scourge upon the living planet. The People’s Republic of Gaiastan is the totalitarian solution to man’s imperfection– Mankind’s Great Leap Forward. It is the outgrowth of an anti-renaissance where man is transformed into the immortal ‘Overman’. These elites are like gods, living out their ‘sustainable’ lives in densely populated urban centers and transferring their consciousness into Heavenly Virtuality at death.
The rest of humanity has been relegated to the lower castes: the laboring serfs known as ‘undermen’ who live in shantytowns and provincial villages, and the clans of cannibalistic savages called ‘unhumans’ who prowl the depopulated wild lands.
The plot…
Indigo and Staley are the only two survivors of the seventh failed mission to Mars. They are sent out on a national Triumph as conquering heroes. But their tour takes them beyond the reach of their totalitarian masters. They venture across the vast Dehumanized Zones and into the wild lands populated by the caste of serfs who are known as ‘undermen’. It is out there, in the tiny village of Hegeltown, beyond the omnipotent social pressures and omnipresent surveillance, that an unexpected series of events begins to unfold.
The wounds left by their disastrous Mars mission drive Staley off on an opiate-induced walkabout and Indigo into the arms of the beautiful exile D’naia– herself a failed elite, cast off by the Overmen for her refusal to be conditioned.
Mr. Lever, an immortal ’Sunstein Agent’… an ancient order of secret police, is commissioned to investigate the disappearance of the two national heroes. But his confrontations with the transformed spacemen alter the nature of his mission. He decides that they can only be salvaged if they have their brains reformatted.
All the while, the unhuman cannibals close in…
Gaiastan:
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty One
Chapter Twenty Two
Chapter Twenty Three
Chapter Twenty Four
Note on Passwords: If you come to a chapter that is protected, email Troy@GoldsteinRepublic.com to get the password.
And here’s a primer on the ideological foundation of Agenda 21 from eco-nut William N. Ellis called “A Gaian Paradigm”:
“A Gaian paradigm,” not only has many roots but, can be, and is becoming, the underpinning of a new global network of cultures replacing the now dominant and domineering man-centered industrial cultures. The new cultures will, like all cultures, be holistic unified coherence of interdependent components — religion, economics. social, art, and others. The emergence of a Gaian paradigm is resulting in a deep fundamental transition of our world-view, our social institutions and our lifestyles.”
Apparently, the future of totalitarianism is green.
